Perfect Record Ends, Five Killed
STUTTGART, Ark. — (UPI) — A Cotton Belt freight train killed five persons in two separate accidents 18 miles apart yesterday.
Engineer J. U. Rector, 61, had been railroading more than 36 years without being involved in a fatal accident. Then in the space of two hours that perfect record was wiped out twice.
RECTOR WAS TAKING the "No.
1 Motor Special" between Jonesboro and Pine Bluff when the train smashed into a pickup truck at a flasher crossing and killed three of the truck's four occupants.
A few minutes after the wreckage was cleared, the train killed a mother and child who stumbled onto the tracks into the path of the "fast freight" just 18 miles from the scene of the first accident.
Rector was anxious to get home. His wife is in the hospital recovering from minor surgery. His mother and father-in-law had come from Rison, Ark., to help take care of his 12-year-old son Gary.
"Good grief," he yelled. He clawed at the emergency brake, but he knew there was nothing he could do.
AS HE NEARED THE crossing at Stuttgart, his hand rested on the whistle cord. He tugged gently and escaping steam shrieked its warning, once, twice. Then he yanked the cord frantically.
The train plowed broadside into the pickup truck, trapped the twisted wreckage underneath and carried it nearly three-quarters of a mile down the tracks before grinding to a halt
KILLED WERE Elizie Smith, Flavelia Ransom and Mrs. Willie B. Smith, all of nearby Almyra Mrs. Smith's husband, Cleo, the driver, was critically injured.
"It looked like the truck was trying to run a race to the crossing." Rector told state trooper Charles Oliphant. There was a flashing red light at the crossing.
The small town of Altheimer is about 18 miles down the track from Stuttgart. Charles Farrer was working at a service station a short distance across the tracks from his home.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Tom Smithie said FARRER saw his 24-year-old wife and three children coming to visit him. Then he heard his wife scream.
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Charles Stevens Farrer, 3. jerked loose from his mother's hand and ran toward the tracks as Rector's train rounded a curve — its shrill whistle screeching.
"Charles, come back," Mrs. Farrer called. She told Wanda Jo, 5, to stay back and then ran to catch Charles. In her arms was two-year-old Charlotte Lee.
CHARLES DASHED across the tracks safely in front of the train. But Mrs. Farrar stumbled and fell on the tracks. She and her youngest daughter were killed.
"She was in front of the train so fast . . . didn't know she was there until it was too late." Rector said.
J. R. Holden, general superintendent for Cotton Belt at Pine Bluff, said the accidents were unprecedented.
"In my 35 years of railreading, this is the first time I ever remember one of our trains hitting and killing people at two different locations," he said.
Rayburn's Health Still Losing Ground
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI)— House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, lost more ground today in his fight against cancer.
He failed to rally from a weakness which developed in his condition yesterday and has lost alertness.
"He has no particular discomfort but remains weak," a hospital bulletin said. "His condition continues to be serious."
The graduate students of the Department of Psychology wish to express their deep sorrow on the passing of a close friend, a brilliant scholar, and a warm human being. Dr. Martin Scheerer.
Jerry Palmer -
was originated last year after appropriations.) There is no question in my mind which organization is more important."
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Attacking the NSA national congress Palmer saves:
"I would say that 40 per cent of the delegates there don't know what they're voting for. And what benefit is to send delegates to congress when they don't report on what happened there. NSA passed 11 resolutions at the last congress. One of them was to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. The other opposes limitation of academic freedom in Cuba. Is this the issue about Cuba that really concerns students? And who knows what the other nine resolutions are?"
PALMER SAYS IF KU REMAINS affiliated with NSA, he would like to see KU views presented in the national conference.
"If our views are heard," he says, "and we could get a chance to show what KU thinks, it would be fine. "I think," Palmer emphasized, "that KU should get some good resolutions and take them back to the national conference. But KU has presented issues to the conference before and they were not recognized."
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had been used as a political tool by people outside the Council.
"I would have less faith and less respect for the ASC because the members would have let themselves be used," she said.
Charles Menghini—
he right to submit a minority report to the national organization," he added.
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HE SAID THE SUGGESTED local current affairs committee would not be a substitute for the NSA committee.
"The committee will not continue with the same personnel if we are disaffiliated with NSA," he stated flatly. "And what's more, the local committee wouldn't have the benefits which I mentioned."
Asked about the recent student vote at the University of Oklahoma
to disaffiliate from NSA, Menghini said:
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"To me, the OU vote shows the apathy and unawareness of NSA by the students. It's obvious OU didn't conduct an orientation program such as we are planning. If they had, the vote would have been much larger.
"THE MOVEMENT TO DISAFFiliate at OU and many colleges receives its impetus from ultra-conservative organizations such as YAF (Young Americans for Freedom)," Menghini added.
"I don't blame them for being opposed to the liberalism of the American college student, but I do blame
them for trying to stifle the NSA instead of trying to persuade the majority of the students to their views."
He said he believed the local YAF chapter was involved in the controversy at KU.
"YAF is not involved on the surface, other than the fact that Jerry Palmer was one of the six organizers of the KU chapter of YAF," he said. "YAF, however, is definitely leading the battle behind the scenes. The cost versus benefits argument is merely an attempt to hide the real reason these people want to disaffiliate."
THINK INTERNATIONAL
"Hitch your wagon to a 'growth' industry and grow with it!"
Douglas Leigh, President Douglas Leigh, Inc.
"A growth industry is a new industry that is on the way up - moving quickly, expanding fast. When you join a company in one of the growth fields you have something extra working for you . . . you grow up with it. To find out which industry is right for you, try this: Ask someone in a good investment office to give you a list of the industries he considers 'growth industries'. Data
Processing, plastics, and electronics are a few examples. Then pick the one you have a leaning toward, and get the names of the most progressive companies in that field.
One thing I'd like to point out from my own career is . . a growth industry may also be an old business that's on the verge of new development. Shortly after leaving college I found this situation in the Outdoor Advertising field. What my associates and I did was to employ color, action and motion to dramatically personify the product, brand or services being advertised. In doing so, we developed the modern type 'Spectaculars' that talked, blew smoke rings, soap bubbles, etc. . . signs that changed the face of Broadway and the famous Times Square area.
This is just one example. The really important thing to remember is this: When you set your sights on a career, aim for an industry that is going to grow, so you can grow with it. It's the difference between a rocket that blasts off, and one that just sits there. Good luck!"
Plan your pleasure ahead, too.
Have a real cigarette-Camel
THE BEST TOBACCO MAKES THE BEST SMOKE.
B. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
North Carolina